Original articles

With reference to prescription rates, the introduction of the BTS asthma guidelines has resulted in a fall in the amount of syrups prescribed – although there were still 121,000 presciptions in 2006. There remains a higher amount of combination steroid/long acting beta-agonist inhaler prescription than would be expected. Here.

Comparing the BMI of triads of mother, father and child at 7.5 years for 4,654 children in the ALSPAC cohort shows that maternal BMI is no more closely associated with child BMI than paternal is BMI – suggesting that there has been no effect of interuterine programming. Here